Schools

GL Assessment has been delivering well-established solutions to schools across the UK and abroad for over 30 years, and our portfolio comprises assessments such as the Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT4) - UK's most widely used test of reasoning abilities. Other popular assessments include Progress Test Series and the third edition of the best selling Group Reading Test, New Group Reading Test.

Primary Schools

Exciting new editions to our portfolio are the Diagnostic Test of Word Reading Processes - the only standardised test in the UK that assesses regular words, exception words and non-words, thus providing diagnostic information to guide intervention, and the Sandwell Early Numeracy Test – Revised (SENT-R) - a standardised assessment that provides a baseline of a pupil’s number skills, which can be particularly useful in helping identify targets for pupils with additional educational needs.

Secondary Schools

Teachers and other educational professionals in secondary schools have been using resources and services from GL Assessment for over 30 years. Today, we lead literacy, numeracy and ability testing in UK schools and have delivered over 4 million online tests to date.

Our portfolio has broadened over the years to encompass other areas, including pupil attitudes, pupil mental health and wellbeing, and special educational needs. Our Pupil Attitudes to Self and School (PASS), an all age attitudinal survey has proven increasingly popular particularly as tackling behaviour is one of the top priorities in schools today.

SENCOs and Special Schools

For many years, SENCOs and teachers in special schools have relied on our assessments to help identify and adequately meet the needs of pupils who may have a specific learning difficulty. Using the correct tools and having the right processes in place to build appropriate intervention and support programmes is essential to meeting the needs of pupils with learning disabilities.

Our popular, fully standardised Dyslexia Screener and Dyscalculia Screener are important first stage assets to any SENCO or learning support teacher who has concerns about a pupil. An ideal follow-up to the Dyslexia Screener is the Dyslexia Portfolio, an in-depth, individual assessment that provides a comprehensive overview of a pupil’s difficulties to inform intervention.

Educational Organisations

Local Authorities

Our flexible and customisable resources and services are ideal for implementation at local authority level, enabling authorities to gather and analyse authority-wide data and to benefit from our group rates.Shaped by the changing needs of local authorities and schools, our high-quality portfolio fulfils a wide variety of local authority needs.

Our Kirkland Rowell Surveys not only provide individual schools with a cost-effective and easy-to-manage way of monitoring the changing perceptions of parents, pupils and staff, they also give groups of schools the opportunity to combine reports. This enables schools within a local authority to clearly pinpoint strengths and weaknesses and share best practice accordingly.

Professional Education Associations

We works with numerous distinguished educational organisations to ensure we continue to make the necessary changes and enhancements to our portfolio, in order to keep it relevant and valid. Maintaining close links with such organisations also helps us to create resources that incorporate the very latest thinking and research.

Our Kirkland Rowell Surveys are recommended by ASCL and NAHT. Members discounts are available, please contact us for more information.

Xavier Project

We are proud to be supporters of Xavier Project, an educational charity that works with schools in Africa to increase access to education and learning for refugee children.

Founded in 2006, the Xavier Project works mainly in Kenya and Uganda and has so far provided scholarships and support to over 1,000 pupils, worked to increase the capacity of schools and teachers to understand refugee issues and, through its Tamuka project, has set up multiple hubs to provide increased access to vocational training through ICT.

GL Assessment supports the Xavier Project as a sponsor and provides the Xavier Project with an assessment platform to help find candidates for scholarships. We are also sponsors of the 2016 London Xavier Ball.

Education Professionals

School Governors

In schools today, the role of the school governing body is one of great responsibility and importance. It is therefore essential that school governors have at their disposal the right tools, information and data to help them in their decision-making – as well as the necessary training to ensure their skills and knowledge are kept up-to-date and relevant in a continually changing educational landscape.

Up-to-date and high quality data is also key for effective decision-making. In this instance, our Kirkland Rowell Surveys provide schools with a cost-effective and easy-to-manage way of monitoring the changing perceptions of parents, pupils and staff, helping SLTs and governing bodies pinpoint where improvements are most needed.

Speech and Language Therapists

Standardised assessments to help identify speech and language delays and impairments in young children and pupils.

Communication difficulties can put children at a huge disadvantage to their peers and severely affect their education and future. It is therefore imperative that these children receive the necessary supporting intervention to become successful learners. GL Assessment offers a range of assessments and resources to for this purpose, supporting speech and language therapists in delivering tailored intervention programmes.

To aid early identification, GL Assessment offers the WellComm Toolkit, a complete speech and language toolkit that can be used by all Early Years practitioners. Included are tailored intervention activities that can help improve the language skills of all children from six months to six years, whatever their ability.

Speech and language delays and impairments in very young children can also be identified using the New Reynell Developmental Language Scales (NRDLS). Available for use by speech and language therapists only, NRDLS tests both production and understanding of language.

Tutors and Parents

Resources to support tutors and parents, from the publishers of the actual 11+ tests

As the developer and publisher of the actual 11+ test papers that the majority of candidates will take, GL Assessment offers what are widely regarded as the most authentic practice materials available for the 11+.

The Official 11+ Practice Papers series mirror the exact design of the real 11+ test and you can choose from a range of English, Maths, Verbal Reasoning, Non-Verbal Reasoning and Variety practice packs.

Health Professionals

Educational and Clinical Psychologists

Educational and clinical psychologists have a central role in assessing a child’s behavioural, social and emotional problems, specific learning difficulties, and in procedures for statementing children with special needs. Reliable, authoritative assessments are therefore essential. The high-quality resources and services from GL Assessment can be used to provide essential data in a number of key areas.

Popular assessments in this category include the new and improved edition of British Ability Scales (BAS), frequently used by clinical practitioners and educational psychologists. Divided into Early Years and School Age batteries, BAS3 offers a reliable and flexible way of measuring cognitive functioning across the full age range.

Health Professionals and GPs

Timely assessments of abilities and mental health conditions can prevent the further deterioration of a patient in the future. As the publisher of leading health resources like the Schedule of Growing Skills (SGS) and theHospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) - a self-administered questionnaire measuring depression and generalised anxiety,GL Assessment enjoys a well-established reputation amongst health professionals and GPs.